Reid Whitlock

Dr. Reid Whitlock is the Country Director for OTF Group's Rwandan office. Over a thirty year career, Dr. Whitlock has served as a business school professor, a diplomat, an entrepreneur, a Special Forces commander and has advised scores of developing country leaders in Africa, South East Asia and the Middle East on economic development. His career has given him a clear grasp of business strategy, transportation issues, post-harvest agricultural value chains and private sector development in state-led economies. In the academic arena, he has taught graduate economics/business courses in universities in Denmark, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and the United States, where he was a Professor at Darden at the University of Virginia. Reid received his Ph.D. in transportation economics at Tufts. He is also received his MBA at Harvard Business School, a law degree from Tufts and a degree in East Asian Studies from Princeton.